Day Camps

Program Basics on all sessions:

• Program will run from 9am until 4:30pm
• Teams will be grouped by age with up to 16 campers per team
• Lunch and a snack is provided
• Daily recreation time
• Water and swimming in a man-made lake (filtered and treated to swimming pool standards) with depth not to exceed 4 feet
• Visit the new Davidson Center for Space Exploration including an IMAX and/or 3D movie
• Height and weight restrictions apply to simulators
• Tuition:
  • $275 per week
  • $250 per week for 2 to 4 weeks enrollment
  • $225.00 per week for 5 or more weeks enrollment
  • Math or Jedi Experience Day Camps:
    • $350 per Week

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Program Specifics:

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• Do you want to learn the ways of the Lightsaber?
• Do you want to build and race your own Podracer?
• Do you want to infiltrate the decks of a Star Destroyer and steal the plans of the Death Star?

WEEKLY SESSIONS JUNE 28 THROUGH AUGUST 6
JEDI EXPERIENCE IS FOR AGES 7-12

• Lightsaber Building and Training
• Podracer Construction
• Star Wars History
• Alien Life Forms
• Jedi Obstacle Course
• Ships of the Galaxy
• Exhibit Hunt
• Millennium Falcon Theater

CAMP INCLUDES ADMISSION TO TRAVELING EXHIBIT:

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Do you want to know more?

• Do you like to play outdoor games like relay races and capture the flag?
• Do you want to take a trip to the Huntsville Botanical Gardens?
• Do you like to create skits and make crafts?

WEEKLY SESSIONS May 31-June 4, June 21-25 and July 12-18
EXPEDITION CAMP IS FOR AGES 7-11

• Take a nature hike around the Museum and enjoy a picnic lunch
• Make arts and crafts projects
• Teambuilding games, such as relay races and obstacle courses
• Traditional summer outdoor and water games
• Create and perform original team skits
• Take a day trip to the Huntsville Botanical Gardens with picnic lunch
• Take part in animal track identification activities
• Play plant identification games
• Swimming once during your weeklong program

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Do you want to know more?

• Do you like to build things?
• Do you like to play with robots and Legos?
• Do you want to race a Mars robotics car you and your team design?

WEEKLY SESSIONS June 14-18, July 5-9 and July 26-30
ROBOTICS CAMP IS FOR AGES 7-11

• Learn basic engineering and design principles with robots
• Design a small robotic car
• Build better communication and teamworking skills
• Work on simple engineering and design projects
• Small group work
• Compete in a robotic car race
• Design a small obstacle course for your robotic car
• Swimming once during your weeklong adventure

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Do you want to know more?

• Do you want to build and launch your own rocket?
• Do you like to do experiments?
• Do you want to know what is it like to be a space station astronaut?

WEEKLY SESSIONS May 31 through August 6
Star (ages 7 & 8)
Constellation (ages 9-11)

• Run a "Skybase" mission
• Hands-on Science Lab activities led by our education department
• Perform hands-on astronaut experiments like the real astronauts on the space station
• Observe rocketry principles in action by building and launching rockets
• Learn about living and working in space
• Participate in Mars-themed activities
• Draw and design your own space mission patch
• Museum activities including simulators like the climbing wall and MISSION to MARS
• Learn how Huntsville took man to the moon
• Swimming twice in your weeklong adventure

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Do you want to know more?

• Do you want to fly fighter pilot simulators
• Do you want to learn survival skills?
• Do you want to know what it is like to be a fighter pilot?

WEEKLY SESSIONS May 31 through August 6
X-1 (ages 7 & 8)
X-15 (ages 9-11)

• Learn the Basics of Flying
• Learn to Fly an F-18 simulator
• Learn Land Survival Training
• LEarn Water Survival Training
• Learn how to Build Shelters
• Build a Toy Glider
• Participate in Aviation themed hands-on activities
• Outdoor Activities including Simulators and Swimming

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Math Camp is June 7 – 11, June 28 – July 2 and July 19 – 23
FOR AGES 7 to 11

MUST HAVE COMPLETED 2ND GRADE

Is your child gifted in Math or Science? Do you want to provide a quality enrichment experience for your child?

A special day camp program for talented and exceptional math students will be offered this summer at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. We will enrich their skills using challenging activities that extend their love of math to outside the classroom and into space and aviation. Help your child build a strong foundation for the pursuit of mathematics for middle and high school course work and beyond.

For questions about the Math @ Space Camp program only email: education@spacecamp.com.

• Use Math to illustrate how we get to the Moon and Mars
• Use images from Hubble space telescope from a mathematical perspective
• "Out of this world" word problems
• Participate in math drill competitions
• Use math to study space programs and astronomy from past to present
• Learn about how our astronaut simulators work using math forumlas
• Guided tour of our Rocket Park and Museum

Do you want to know more?

• Do you want to know how math is used on the space shuttle?
• Do you like to solve word problems?
• Do you want to do math drills?

All Math @ Space Camp students must have a letter of recommendation from 2009-10 teacher/administrator, verifying the student's interest/talent in math. The letter of recommendation should be emailed to education@spacecamp.com

Car Drop Off (U.S. Space & Rocket Center)

Red Towers Entrance 8:10am 5:!5pm

Early drop off and late pick-up:

Parents can drop their child off at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center's red towers no earlier than 7:30am daily for an additional $25 for the week. This will cover breakfast, and supervision until the program begins at 9am.

Parent can also pick their students up at late as 5:30pm daily for an additional $25 per week. This will cover supervision after the program ends at 4:30pm. Pick-up will be at the Space Camp red towers entrance.

Parents/Guardians must bring a photo ID to sign their child into and out of the program each day and will be asked on the first day to list any and all possible people who can pick up or drop their child for the week, as well as an additional, valid contact numbers if needed for the week. Please update the gate check in person if you have to pick up your child at any time during the program (and returning child that day) that way we can have the gate open and your child ready. Remember we have activities going on up until 4pm each and every day including Fridays.

Bus Transportation:

Extra flat fee of $25 per week (rate will not be prorated)

• Bus One
  • Lowe's (Hwy 72)
    North Madison/Monrovia/Harvest
    • Pick up Time: 8:20am
    • Return Time: 5:05pm
  • Walmart (Madison Blvd)
    South Madison
    • Pick up Time: 8:40am
    • Return Time: 4:45pm
• Bus two
  • Publix
    Hampton Cove
    • Pick up Time: 8:10am
    • Return Time: 5:15pm
  • Kids Space
    John Hunt Park
    • Pick up Time: 8:30am
    • Return Time: 4:50pm

Parents/Guardians must always bring a photo ID and sign their child onto and off of the bus each day. Bus times are exact and we will not be able to wait for late arrivals. If you are late to a bus stop, you must proceed to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center's red towers for regular registration procedures

• Camps are split into two groups: 7-8 year olds and 9-11 year olds.